Greater New Orleans

Satchmo Symposium

The Satchmo Symposiums which takes place alongside the SummerFest are a great way for people to learn more about Jazz and Louis Armstrong in particular. Jazz experts, authors and researchers from around the world blaze a trail to New Orleans at the beginning of August to discuss and learn about what has been discovered or uncovered in the last year. This year it is a whole series of radio shows hosted by Louis Armstrong that have been recently unearthed. Head of the Jazz Institute at Rutgers University, Dan Morgenstern will talk about these on Saturday and he will let us listen to Satchmo recordings that haven't been heard in close to 70 years.

WWOZ is another good way to discover more about jazz, so keep your ears tuned to 90.7 -- who knows what you might learn?